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Kalishka Ashkulf BUMP POW 49	Posted - 2014.09.20 13:11:00 - [1] - Quote Howdy fellow pilots. Been away for a good (or bad) number of weeks, and now I'm back. Anyway, just for fun, when was your "big break"? By this, when did you turn from someone counting the .01 isk to someone who couldn't get rid of it fast enough? Let's hear your tales of from rags to riches!
Belesia Velorea The Fiendish Pixies 19	Posted - 2014.09.20 14:14:00 - [2] - Quote When I left highsec behind. I guess a big milestone was when I got my first Pithum A-Type Adaptive Invulnerability Field drop, I sold it for 1.6 billion at the time. I stopped counting my iskies shortly after.
Jur Tissant Unreal Darkness 246	Posted - 2014.09.20 14:19:00 - [3] - Quote Well, I imagine I'm still in the "99%" so to speak but spreading my PI to all three character slots provides me with a PLEX and then some each month.
flakeys Caldari Provisions Caldari State 2439	Posted - 2014.09.20 14:31:00 - [4] - Quote About 4 years ago , hence why i started a new break atm.Hardly active ingama at all for the last months , if my account wouldn't still have over a year playtime on it it prob would be my final break . We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Paranoid Loyd 1937	Posted - 2014.09.20 14:38:00 - [5] - Quote This may sound odd but my big break was getting counter ganked when I first started ganking, I was still figuring it all out and got baited into attacking a ship that appeared to be shitfit, he knew I was a rookie and had me scan a shitfit badger, then warped to an orca and switched ships to a much tankier badger before he jumped to the system I ganking in, I got about 10% into shields and failed miserably. I convoed him to figure out wtf happened and ended up making a friend and mentor that turned me into the killer I am today "PvE in EVE is a trap to turn you into PvP content, don't confuse it for actual gameplay." Lipbite
Neven Cengari Reasonable People Of Sound Mind 0	Posted - 2014.09.20 15:01:00 - [6] - Quote I made this character in 2011, played for about 3 months and left. Didn't come back until August this year. On a whim decided to try a Sov Null corp that claimed to be newb friendly. What do you know, they weren't lying. The people here were absolutely awesome from day one, and when I mentioned wanting to do exploration one of the older members immediately traded me an Astero to use for as long as I liked. That was my break. In a few hours I had enough isk to buy a ratting ship, in a few days enough to not worry about replacing any of my PvP ships (to be fair we do have a very good SRP as well). I am not filthy rich but I have more than enough to cover all my possible expenses, and a way to make more if needed at any point. I never want to turn isk-making into a goal in and of itself, so this works very well for me.
DaReaper Net 7 The Last Brigade 980	Posted - 2014.09.20 15:30:00 - [7] - Quote honestly? never. 10 years here, and i usually have just enough isk to pay for the ship i just lost and a new clone. I rarely, if ever break a billion. Only three times in 10 years. 1) i sold basically everything good i had had about 23b, and bought a nyx. Said nyx died a month later. 2) had a few billion in insurance after my nyx died, i stretched this for about a year 3) sold an alt and had a few billion, same as above, stretched this for about a year My play style is a bit odd. I tend to do things for others, as ceo i usually wind up doing everything myself. My players make isk, and i barely make anything. It never bothers me cause i don;t pay with plex. I know HOW to make money, i just usually am too damn busy running pos', recruiting, or dealing with alliance crap. Its only been now that i stopped doing that stuff and left my corp super small that i have time to make money... and well its boring, so i'll prolly recruit and ignore my own money again soon. lol. OMG Comet Mining idea!!! https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=331766
Ralph King-Griffin Lords.Of.Midnight The Devil's Warrior Alliance 5028	Posted - 2014.09.20 15:50:00 - [8] - Quote Cannibal Kane and some others were slagging me off for some expensive Legion derp losses a while ago, some big scary meanie faced mercs liked the way i laughed it off and recruited me, been having a blast since =]I[=
Ssabat Thraxx Dominion Tenebrarum Reverberation Project 805	Posted - 2014.09.20 16:26:00 - [9] - Quote Decided to get into trading close to a year ago. Corpie who had become a good friend gave me a plex to sell for startup capital, told me to just pay him back half the value of said plex. This is when plex were around 550m isk. Flipped it, turned it, reinvested, rinse and repeat. Why do u think I have so much time on the forums? I'm camping orders on a couple of my trader alts, browsing the forums, listening to and downloading music.... just check orders for undercuts every so often. a-chinga-ching-chang! \m/ O.o \m/ We may never never never come home but the magic that we'll feel is worth a lifetime. \m/ RIP Ronnie James Dio \m/
Schmata Bastanold Black Rebel Rifter Club The Devil's Tattoo 2744	Posted - 2014.09.20 16:28:00 - [10] - Quote A year ago when finances got better and I could finally afford casually buying PLEX. Well, maybe casually is not a good word, I just bought few full batches of PLEX during seasonal sale and still have like 3/4 of them. Healthy RL income fixes all ISK problems. If only not skill queue... Invalid signature format
Hiasa Kite Republic University Minmatar Republic 25	Posted - 2014.09.20 16:40:00 - [11] - Quote Started LoSec exploration yesterday, expecting an income of about 10m per hour. Not too bad for a toon less than 2 weeks old. Very first jump into LoSec I stumble on a fight at the gate. Loser pops and the victor left some stuff on the wreck and flew off. I try my luck and ninjaloot. 200m+ ISK of various T2, dead space and faction mods. <- mfw
Erika Tsurpalen SoulFire Gaming The Alliance of The Eternal Flame 11	Posted - 2014.09.20 16:51:00 - [12] - Quote Well, when i first joined a few years ago, my first break was some lucky exploring stuff where i netted 300mil in my first couple weeks. Although my "Biggest break" was a scam where I nicked about 15bil. gave that up now though.
Crumplecorn Eve Cluster Explorations 1363	Posted - 2014.09.20 17:57:00 - [13] - Quote I was an industrial player from day one so I've always had far more ISK than I've needed for lossmaking activities like PvP. Looking back at my old spreadsheets, it seems my 'big break' was when I stopped mining my own minerals. [witty image] - Stream
Hiply Rustic Aliastra Gallente Federation 172	Posted - 2014.09.20 18:23:00 - [14] - Quote Biggest financial break? Leaving for a while after dumping every isk I had into plex when they were selling @300 or so, as an inflation hedge, and returning to find them at 800. Ralph King-Griffin wrote: "Eve deliberately excludes the stupid and the weak willied." *EvE: Only the strong-willied need apply.*
ShahFluffers Ice Fire Warriors Late Night Alliance 6141	Posted - 2014.09.20 21:53:00 - [15] - Quote I joined Faction Warfare. Change isn't bad, but it isn't always good. Sometimes, the oldest and most simple of things can be the most elegant and effective. "How did you veterans start?"
Liam Inkuras Top Belt Heroes Black Rise Police Department 1281	Posted - 2014.09.20 22:37:00 - [16] - Quote Still poor, no change in sight. As long as I can afford a new ship, I'm happy I wear my goggles at night. Any spelling/grammatical errors come complimentary with my typing on a phone
Eternus8lux8lucis Journies End 280	Posted - 2014.09.20 22:41:00 - [17] - Quote I never had much of a big break I might add. Ive just steadily increased over time by making goals and exceeding them most of the time. Made a lot running invention years ago with 4 toons and selling rig bpo packs boy did those things sell like hot cakes, as well as the times that I tried multiboxing ore and ice before the ice changes hit. But not really something Id classify as a break. Strength isnt measured in numbers but in force of will. For if one motived willful individual stands many will fall around him that are weak. http://tinyurl.com/YarrFace
Xuixien The Dark Space Initiative Scary Wormhole People 1741	Posted - 2014.09.20 23:02:00 - [18] - Quote my first "break" was when i was passing through a system and i saw someone post "21day free trial + 150 million isk starter money! convo me for details!" whats good to do on one character is good to do on several... and the forums. thus began the great buddy invite fiasco, which resulted in ccp laying down rules about invites and tank ceo having a nervous breakdown in the eve mirc channel and later jita local. i didnt make much isk but i had a lot of game time on my accnts. my 2nd break was joining fw before the great goon caper nerf. talk about some dough. my 3rd break, and really my big break, was discovering reverse safaris. KACHING my best break though was getting to join tdsin, not because isk, but because i have a great time. Epic Space Cat
BrundleMeth Caldari Provisions Caldari State 216	Posted - 2014.09.20 23:35:00 - [19] - Quote 6 years...not yet...flying alone and bored shitless...
DaReaper Net 7 The Last Brigade 982	Posted - 2014.09.21 01:22:00 - [20] - Quote BrundleMeth wrote: 6 years...not yet...flying alone and bored shitless... then stop flying alone OMG Comet Mining idea!!! https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=331766
Steppa Musana Republic Military School Minmatar Republic 124	Posted - 2014.09.21 01:56:00 - [21] - Quote There was this guy who moved into my mining system with 15 mining barges. He would ruthlessly mine the ice belts, all day and with perfect timing and efficiency. If you weren't at a spawn within the first 20 minutes, good luck getting any appreciable amount. We tried getting rid of him in multiple ways, but nothing worked. He knew what he was doing. So I did the only sensible thing: Created more accounts and counterblobbed him with 14 of my own mining barges. He eventually left, and I took his spot as "that jackass who mines all the ice" 12 figures later, I've stopped mining. But 12 figures
JC Anderson State Protectorate Caldari State 1137	Posted - 2014.09.21 03:16:00 - [22] - Quote Heh, mine is somewhat strange. I have been playing this game since 05, but for years I never really put much effort into gathering wealth or resources. I just kind of flew around and had fun here and there. And then, some dude posted one of those I'M QUITTING EVE HERE IS WHY threads on the old forums. You know, the ones where everybody posts troll replies and demands to give them stuff? I must have not been feeling well or something because I opted not to join the troll brigade that one time, and instead replied with a simple post consisting of two words. "Be well" Every other reply in that threads was exactly what you would expect. ;) Days later I suddenly had multiple escrow/contracts assigned to me. I thought it was a mistake because I did not recognize the name at all. THEN I started looking through the list of items and my jaw dropped. Between ships (lots of freighters and expensive faction battleships), minerals, and a hodge podge of other stuff including officer mods, I was able to later sell what I didn't need for around 6 billion and kept the rest. And what I kept still made up for at least 75% the total ISK value of everything I was given. I had tried to figure out who the hell this person was and why they gave me so much stuff, and after never getting a reply (the guy quit) via Eve-Mail I kind of gave up bothering trying to figure it out in the first place. Maybe two weeks later or so somebody replied to the I quit thread, ranting how that guy quit without ever returning all the stuff he owed him. I then noticed the name of the OP in that thread when reading the new post and realized it was the same guy that gave me everything. :P I went through the thread and realized my post was the only one that wasn't an insulting reply. In any sense, I stopped posting insulting replies in the "I quit" forum threads from that day forward. ;)
Sobaan Tali Caldari Quick Reaction Force 364	Posted - 2014.09.21 12:15:00 - [23] - Quote Working on it. I'll let you know when I get there.
pinkajoo Bellato Chamber of Commerce 3	Posted - 2014.09.21 13:45:00 - [24] - Quote When I started trusting someone, and he started trusting me..
Marlenus Ironfleet Towing And Salvage 2	Posted - 2014.09.21 16:11:00 - [25] - Quote For me it was when salvage entered the game, and I noticed that Armor Plates didn't have any use whatsoever in the initial rig recipes. For that reason they were available very cheap on the market ... they were utterly useless! Well, I decided to invest essentially all of my liquid assets (maybe fifty million ISK at the time?) into buying armor plates as cheap as possible. My thinking was that even LOLCCP -- which in those days took minimum of six months to fix any bugs and iterated very rarely on anything -- would have to fix that glitch EVENTUALLY, since a useless salvage item didn't make much sense long term. So, I set up buy orders in five regions and tended them sufficiently to keep my orders the best. For months. Eventually I took a couple of months off -- my second vacation from EVE if I recall -- and when I came back, I suddenly had six billion ISK worth of armor plates because there was a recipe for them and they were now one of the bottleneck salvage items. I sold heavily because I figured the price would eventually decline from its peak (and it has!) but I still have a billion ISK or so in armor plates sitting around. I am frugal with my losses and expenditures, so I've never had to worry about being broke from that day to this. Buying worthless items and waiting for shifts in the game to increase their value has been pretty good to me. But I'm starting to wonder about this five year old stack of ten thousand or so of Zor's Custom Navigation Links. Maybe someday CCP will rebalance all the implants and I will suddenly feel smart, but I am not holding my breath.
Vyl Vit 791	Posted - 2014.09.22 01:14:00 - [26] - Quote I would tell you...but then I'd have to report you to your mother. Anyone with any sense has already left town.
45thtiger 0109 AL3XAND3R. 94	Posted - 2014.09.22 01:34:00 - [27] - Quote Had CCP chase me across the EvE universe for whatever reason I do not know why j/ k CCP
Veers Belvar Swordmasters of New Eden 93	Posted - 2014.09.22 02:42:00 - [28] - Quote Just run L4 SOE's and incursions...don't do anything stupid....and ISK accumulates.
Oracle of Machina Uroboros Diet 1	Posted - 2014.09.22 03:00:00 - [29] - Quote While I haven't made billions upon untold billions of ISK, I did end up finding out from a friend about incursions. At the time, I was extremely new to the game (I'm not exactly an old salt now) and I had no idea what I wanted to do... and my skills can attest to that. A friend suggested that despite the extreme variation in skills, I could probably work towards getting into incursions in about 2-3 weeks of skill training. It would be a bit of a shitfit, but it was (barely) acceptable. Finally! Something to work towards! No longer will I randomly accumulate skill for no particular goal! I had a set goal to work towards for the first time ever. I set a goal. And then I achieved it. No longer did I plug in the random cool-looking skill and train it. No longer was I trying to train all four gunnery types at once. I think that, more than any money I made from Incursions, was the real wake-up call. If you set a goal in EVE, no matter how lofty, and work at it one step at a time, you can pretty much do anything in EVE. Being able to run incursions isn't exactly sky-high, I realize, but it was still a huge accomplishment for me. Oh, and the 3-4 billion I made in a few of days of Incursions was quite nice, too.
CERA Elitist The Prometheus Society 24	Posted - 2014.09.22 03:20:00 - [30] - Quote Proud to be one of the elite few who profited off the 2008 market crash.
Rain6637 Team Evil 19613	Posted - 2014.09.22 04:15:00 - [31] - Quote My big break was when I finally had the fitting skills to fill all the slots on my Golem. I still didn't have the skills to fit rigs, but just the move to T2 launchers alone was excellent. Caldari Navy launchers get expensive. President of the Commissar Kate Fanclub \| Rainfleet on Twitch \| Twitter \| Rainfleet mk.III \| Imgur
Prince Sanguine 153	Posted - 2014.09.22 05:42:00 - [32] - Quote No break yet. Never really needed much isk for what i do. Everytime you read this you are required to send 100 million isk directly to me.
Kalishka Ashkulf BUMP POW 49	Posted - 2014.09.22 07:09:00 - [33] - Quote Wow, there's quite a few great stories going on here. How many of them were interrupted by general gunfire and tomfoolery?
Rain6637 Team Evil 19615	Posted - 2014.09.22 07:41:00 - [34] - Quote making it past the hump of grinding enough CN standings for a level 4 agent was sweet too. President of the Commissar Kate Fanclub \| Rainfleet on Twitch \| Twitter \| Rainfleet mk.III \| Imgur
om rootingking Brave Newbies Inc. Brave Collective 40	Posted - 2014.09.22 09:17:00 - [35] - Quote Wanted to quit eve every week the forst six months, salvaging and missions made me some space money. Ratting lowsec in a thrasher was good because the turrets were worth getting, that got nerfed. Then it was shooting npc haulers in hisec to feed a science pos and selling the excess, hit 800m and stopped caring about losses, then the hauler loot got nerfed. After 800m in wallet and assets, the balance stopped being the space scorecard. From then on it was fun derived from doing new things or making others upset. THEN a friend raegquit and left me all his stuff. THEN i found what seemed to be the assets of an entire corp (or extremely rich maniac) floating in space in freight containers. Coincidentally, Enormous Freight Containers got nerfed that week.
Ralph King-Griffin Lords.Of.Midnight The Devil's Warrior Alliance 5068	Posted - 2014.09.22 09:29:00 - [36] - Quote Kalishka Ashkulf wrote: Wow, there's quite a few great stories going on here. How many of them were interrupted by general gunfire and tomfoolery? yup I I I I V =]I[=
Mike Adoulin Adolescent Radioactive Pirate Hamsters 882	Posted - 2014.09.22 09:33:00 - [37] - Quote I used to grind missions and stuff, but now I just look at market PLEX prices, cackle evilly, and buy PLEX from CCP when they have a sale. ..... Wat? DONT JUDGE ME Everything in EVE is a trap. And if it isn't, it's your job to make it a trap...:) You want to know what immorality in EVE Online looks like? Look no further than Ripard "Jester" Teg.
Rain6637 Team Evil 19615	Posted - 2014.09.22 09:35:00 - [38] - Quote Kalishka Ashkulf wrote: Wow, there's quite a few great stories going on here. How many of them were interrupted by general gunfire and tomfoolery? lately the only thing that interrupts me are closed sockets President of the Commissar Kate Fanclub \| Rainfleet on Twitch \| Twitter \| Rainfleet mk.III \| Imgur
Toriessian Helion Production Labs Independent Operators Consortium 279	Posted - 2014.09.22 20:06:00 - [39] - Quote Year ago right after WHs started I joined a bad "noob" WH corp and they left me there alone for months with only my drake, a harbi, and some mining stuff. One day he logged in and pulled everything down, told me he was shutting corp down and all of a sudden I was rolling in the dough because he liquidated everything and gave it to me.
Val'Dore PlanetCorp InterStellar 856	Posted - 2014.09.22 20:42:00 - [40] - Quote When I stopped giving a damn what my wallet looked like is when it got fat and lazy. SJD I invented Tiericide
Korsiri Epilogue Enterprises 113	Posted - 2014.09.22 21:29:00 - [41] - Quote haven't taken one ;) I just got off to a slow start
Trisha Landers Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State 19	Posted - 2014.09.23 01:16:00 - [42] - Quote I PLEX my account every month and I'm bad at making ISK. So never.
Lugia3 Intentionally Dense Easily Excited 1286	Posted - 2014.09.23 01:18:00 - [43] - Quote I found 4 Orthrus rats and a Barghest rat over a span of 3 days just after they came out. Sold my shoes for Heliotopes. Please send moneys. "CCP Dolan is full of ****." - CCP Bettik Remove Sov!
John E Normus New Order Logistics CODE. 205	Posted - 2014.09.23 02:13:00 - [44] - Quote When I stopped trying to make isk and started taking it instead. yo ho ho Between Ignorance and Wisdom
Mallak Azaria GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation 6195	Posted - 2014.09.23 02:23:00 - [45] - Quote I scammed a few people & turned that money in to a reaction farm. This post was lovingly crafted by a member of the Goonwaffe Posting Cabal, proud member of the popular gay hookup site somethingawful.com, Spelling Bee, Grammar Gestapo & #1 Official Gevlon Goblin Fanclub member.
Netan MalDoran xXTheWarhammerXx 87	Posted - 2014.09.23 03:06:00 - [46] - Quote My big break is when I (Unfortuneately) stopped playing EvE, made my RL wallet bigger "Your security status has been lowered." - Hell yeah it was!
Reiisha Splint Eye Probabilities Inc. Dawn of Transcendence 646	Posted - 2014.09.23 08:12:00 - [47] - Quote Still waiting for it. If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all...
Sexy Cakes Have A Seat 789	Posted - 2014.09.23 12:17:00 - [48] - Quote When I got enough skillpoints to fly a tengu and an alt with scanning skills. Not today spaghetti.
Tivookz Caldari Provisions Caldari State 36	Posted - 2014.09.23 13:53:00 - [49] - Quote If I recall, when I started playing in 2006 I quickly realised that mission running wasn't for me. So I started mining which was pretty relaxing because I have a stressful job however I also realised that there were bigger fish to fry in alliance 0.0 space. I mined in highsec so that I had enough to buy a battleship and that allowed me to apply for Pure. Alliance. That was my break. After that it was like stealing candy from a child. Way back then high end minerals were extremely expensive, Morphite was like 15000 p/u, mega around 5k and zyd around 3k. A few months in a true 0.0 belt and 3 alt accounts later I was pretty damn rich, rich enough to buy the T2 BPO's that I have to this day. Of course, I continued the mining operations, bought a Rorqual and whatnot, even had my rl m8 join in with some more miners. Nowadays I don't mine at all because it simply isn't profitable, so I invest my money in various items and minerals, pretty much 5-10b at a time, and hope they increase in value. Yep, I don't do much research before I invest but everyone knows moon minerals, rare items etc always fluctuate so it's just a matter of time before it's profitable to sell them.
BrundleMeth Caldari Provisions Caldari State 217	Posted - 2014.09.26 14:53:00 - [50] - Quote DaReaper wrote: BrundleMeth wrote: 6 years...not yet...flying alone and bored shitless... then stop flying alone Everyone says "trust no one". So I won't... The few times I was in a corp/alliances there were scammers that would rip off their own corpmates. So I figured if my own corp mates would do that, I would fly alone. Bored, sure but never ripped off again...
Petre en Thielles Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation 52	Posted - 2014.09.29 17:49:00 - [51] - Quote BrundleMeth wrote: DaReaper wrote: BrundleMeth wrote: 6 years...not yet...flying alone and bored shitless... then stop flying alone Everyone says "trust no one". So I won't... The few times I was in a corp/alliances there were scammers that would rip off their own corpmates. So I figured if my own corp mates would do that, I would fly alone. Bored, sure but never ripped off again... Trust people, just don't trust them with your assets.
Toshiro Hasegawa Red Federation RvB - RED Federation 90	Posted - 2014.09.29 18:49:00 - [52] - Quote 11 years in .. off and on and i am still perpetually poor and couldnt make enough isk if my toon's life depended on it .. which it does .. so i buy plex. so i guess my big break came when i got a good job in RL. or i am still waiting for my big break ... still waiting ... History is the study of change.
BlkQueen Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic 1	Posted - 2014.09.29 19:19:00 - [53] - Quote NEVER, always got into crappy corps where people couldn't be bothered to answer a question let alone help out. I did once get some help with isk but no ships, rentals, etc. Even in mining corps, would wait for the mining nights to begin and they would get cancelled. Jumped around a bit and now im back in Highsec, licking my wounds from another lame corp that cant protect its own miners, pisses everyone off and gets war decced every other day. One day. I guess. But I only play this game off and on even though my toon is old. Just had a bad start and never really picked up after that.
Solecist Project I'm So Meta Even This Acronym 10188	Posted - 2014.09.29 19:55:00 - [54] - Quote Toshiro Hasegawa wrote: 11 years in .. off and on and i am still perpetually poor and couldnt make enough isk if my toon's life depended on it .. which it does .. so i buy plex. so i guess my big break came when i got a good job in RL. or i am still waiting for my big break ... still waiting ... You're in RvB. Seriously, what do you expect? I am Sol. I cook my bacon naked, you sissies. Check out the newest and sexiest in New Eden Fashion today! https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=374461&find=unread

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